| attenuated vaccine |
A vaccine prepared from live bacteria or viruses, which have been weakened so they produce immunity but do not cause disease. Also called live attenuated vaccines. (Compare with inactivated vaccine.)
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| attention deficit disorder |
A disorder associated with low attention spans and hyperactivity
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| attack |
(See amplitude.)
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| attenuate |
attenuation. The lessening of sound signal level due to divergence, absorption, reflection, refraction, diffraction, etc., typically expressed in decibels. [3]
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| attrition |
The loss of subjects during the course of a study. This may be a threat to the validity of conclusions if participants of study and comparison/control groups drop out at different rates or for different reasons. FOR EXAMPLE, if treatment participants fail to appear for treatment and are subsequently excluded from the follow-up, the treatment and control subjects remaining may not be "comparable" due to attrition.
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